6. Person to reach South Pole – Amundsen7. Person to reach North Pole – Robert Pearey8. Person in Space – Yuri Gagarin9. Person on Moon – Neil Armstrong10. Lady to climb Mount Everest – Junko Taibei11. European to visit China – Marco Polo12. Place where atom bomb was dropped – Hiroshima13. Man to walk in Space – Alexei Leonov14. Woman cosmonaut in Space – Valentina Tereshkova15. Woman Prime Minister of a country - Mrs. Srimavo Bhandarnaike16. Woman President of a country - Maria Estela Peron17. Woman to Command a Space Mission - Colonel Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)18. The first residents of International Space station - Bill Shepherd (USA),Yuri Gidzanko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)19. The first blind man to scale Mt. Everest - Erik Weihenmayer(USA, May 25, 2001)20. The first Muslim woman to become the Secretary General of Amnesty International lrine –Zubeida Khan21. The first space astronaut to go into space seven times till date - Jerry Ross (U.S.A.)22. The first South African to become the second space tourist - Mark Shuttleworth

23. The first woman Prime Minister of South Korea - Ms. Chang Sang

24. The first youngest grandmaster of the world in chess - Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)25. The first adventurer flying successfully across the English Channel without aircraft - Felix Baumgartner (July 2003)26. China’s first man in space - Yang Liwei27. The first Muslim woman to receive Nobel Prize - Shirin Ebadi (Nobel Peace Prize 2003)28. The woman with the highest individual Test score making a new world record - Kiran Baloch (Pakistani cricketer, scoring 242 runs playing women’s cricket test against West Indies inKarachi in March, 2004)29. The first woman of the world to climb Mt. Everest four times - Lakpa Sherpa (Nepali)30. The first woman to cross seven important seas of the world by swimming - Bula Chaudhury (India)31. The first aircraft pilot to round the entire world non-stop by his 2 engine aircraft in 67 hours -Steve Fossett (March 2005)32. The first woman to be appointed as a Governor of a province in Afghanistan - Habiba Sorabhi33. The first woman of the world to swim across five continents – Bula Chaudhury (India) (April 2005)34. The first woman athlete to touch 5.0 meter mark in pole vault - Ms. Yelena Isinbayeva(Russian, July 2005)